Man Charged In Sailor's Death

HAMPTON — Police arrested a former Cambridge Apartments man Friday evening in Norfolk in connection with the death of his 28-year-old girlfriend, Veronica Collins-Goss.

The suspect, Steven Allen Riddick, 29, had been living with Collins-Goss -- a sailor assigned to the Norfolk-based USS Harry S. Truman, according to Jimmie Wideman, a Hampton police spokesman.

Collins-Goss was found dead in the couple's apartment in the 5100 block of Goldsboro Drive Wednesday night, after her shipmates asked police to check on her because they hadn't seen her for several days. She was in a bedroom of the second-story apartment, apparently having been bludgeoned to death.

Police said the killing followed a domestic altercation between the two. A neighbor of the couple called police about a disturbance at their apartment at 11:42 p.m. Monday. Police arrived at 11:49 p.m. and knocked on the couple's door but left at 11:57 p.m. after no one answered.

Wideman said detectives wouldn't discuss evidence that led to the charges against Riddick (until he's in custody.